Abstract
Different mulching materials like grass, Lantana and plastic helped bell pepper to perform better at water deficits from 25 to 75%. Growth (plant height, leaf area and leaf area index) and flower number and fruit yield were significantly maintained at higher level in mulched plants than unmulched ones up to 75% water deficit. Yield was significantly higher in plastic mulch at 25, 50 and 75% water deficits. Mulched plants maintained higher photosynthetic rate over unmulched at all water deficit levels. Plastic mulch increased WUE. Light transmission ratio decreased considerably in mulched stressed plants. Mulching improved drought tolerance efficiency at all levels of water deficits.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching maintained plant height, leaf area, and leaf area index above unmulched plants at up to 75% water deficit.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuumt0 - Treatment
- mulched plantse0
- Outcome
- plant height, leaf area and leaf area indexe0
- Direction
- higher levele0
- Qualifier
- up to 75% water deficite0
- Comparator
- unmulched onese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Growth (plant height, leaf area and leaf area index) and flower number and fruit yield were significantly maintained at higher level in mulched plants than unmulched ones up to 75% water deficit”
t0“Capsicum annuum”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching maintained flower number and fruit yield above unmulched plants at up to 75% water deficit.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuumCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- mulched plantse0
- Outcome
- flower number and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- higher levele0
- Qualifier
- up to 75% water deficite0
- Comparator
- unmulched onese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Growth (plant height, leaf area and leaf area index) and flower number and fruit yield were significantly maintained at higher level in mulched plants than unmulched ones up to 75% water deficit”
t0“Capsicum annuum”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch gave significantly higher yield at 25, 50, and 75% water deficits.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuumCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- Yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- 25, 50 and 75% water deficitse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Yield was significantly higher in plastic mulch at 25, 50 and 75% water deficits.”
t0“Capsicum annuum”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulched plants had higher photosynthetic rate at every water deficit level.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuumCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- Mulched plantse0
- Outcome
- photosynthetic ratee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- all water deficit levelse0
- Comparator
- unmulchede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulched plants maintained higher photosynthetic rate over unmulched at all water deficit levels.”
t0“Capsicum annuum”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased water use efficiency.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuumCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- Plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- WUEe0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plastic mulch increased WUE.”
t0“Capsicum annuum”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulched stressed plants had considerably lower light transmission ratio.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuumCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- mulched stressed plantse0
- Outcome
- Light transmission ratioe0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Light transmission ratio decreased considerably in mulched stressed plants.”
t0“Capsicum annuum”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching improved drought tolerance efficiency at all water deficit levels.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuumCapsicum annuumt0
- Treatment
- Mulchinge0
- Outcome
- drought tolerance efficiencye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Qualifier
- all levels of water deficitse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching improved drought tolerance efficiency at all levels of water deficits.”
t0“Capsicum annuum”
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